Krillion Recorded answers
6,313 recorded answers
How to approach it
Reverse the usual move: instead of hunting for one item, generate a wide field of candidates quickly, then test each against the date. Choose a broad arena of old practical life — the household, the building site, the workshop, the battlefield, the sickroom — and jot down five or six concrete things from each, written with the precise term a specialist would use rather than the everyday word. Scrutiny comes next: does a written source place the thing before 1500, and is it an object, a technique or a system rather than a plant, a dish or a drink? Width first, judgement afterwards. Since the reveal rewards volume, keep extending the shortlist and note spelling variants of every entry, because a narrow technical label is often the form the list accepts.
Get a hint
Begin with the working capital of ordinary life in antiquity: the tools, containers, fastenings and structures people handled daily rather than the ceremonial pieces kept for the powerful.
A little more
Narrow next to problems that demanded a designed solution — keeping accounts, lifting water, marking the hour, landing a blow in combat, closing a wound — and ask whether a documented remedy predates 1500.
One step further
Finally, favour the specialist's label over the household word: a single implement, one named building element or a particular notation usually sits in reference works under a term nobody says aloud today.
Reveal answers 6,313
- TraceryDeep Cut85points
- TracheotomyDeep Cut85points
- TrachyDeep Cut85points
- Tracing paperDeep Cut85points
- TrackwayDeep Cut85points
- Traction (orthopedics)Deep Cut85points
- Trade beadDeep Cut85points
- TrademarkDeep Cut85points
- Trammel hookDeep Cut85points
- Trammel netDeep Cut85points
- Trammel of ArchimedesDeep Cut85points
- Tranchet axeDeep Cut85points
- TransennaDeep Cut85points
- TranseptDeep Cut85points
- Transposition cipherDeep Cut85points
- Transverse arrowheadDeep Cut85points
- Transverse fluteDeep Cut85points
- TrapetumDeep Cut85points
- TravoisDeep Cut85points
- TrawlDeep Cut85points
- TreadleDeep Cut85points
- TreadwheelDeep Cut85points
- Treadwheel craneDeep Cut85points
- Treasure bindingDeep Cut85points
- Treasury (building)Deep Cut85points
- TreehouseDeep Cut85points
- TreenailDeep Cut85points
- Trefoil broochDeep Cut85points
- Trelleborg-type fortressDeep Cut85points
- TrellisDeep Cut85points
- TrenchDeep Cut85points
- TrencherDeep Cut85points
- TrephineDeep Cut85points
- TreshchotkaDeep Cut85points
- Trestle bridgeDeep Cut85points
- Trestle tableDeep Cut85points
- TriaconterDeep Cut85points
- Triadic pyramidDeep Cut85points
- TriangleDeep Cut85points
- Triangulation (surveying)Deep Cut85points
- TribikosDeep Cut85points
- TribonDeep Cut85points
- Tribune (architecture)Deep Cut85points
- Trick vesselDeep Cut85points
- TriforiumDeep Cut85points
- TriggerDeep Cut85points
- TriglyphDeep Cut85points
- Trigonometric tableDeep Cut85points
- TrigononDeep Cut85points
- TrihemioliaDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The scoring here is unusually flat: a single recorded pick took the full hundred, while more than five thousand earned eighty-five and seven hundred more stopped at sixty. That shape points to a closed list graded by rarity rather than by correctness — nearly everything submitted was accepted and then levelled. The lone maximum went to Pythagorean cup, an ingenious contrivance few players would reach for. The eighty-five band is vast and reads like a catalogue of specialist vocabulary: Ab anbar, Abat-son, Abatis, Abjad numerals, Acinaces, Acoustic jar, Acta Diurna. Each is a real thing from before 1500, yet each sits inside a niche — water supply, architecture, fortification, notation, armament — so finding one depends on knowing that corner of the field, not on luck. The sixty-point tier, seven hundred strong, probably collects the more familiar choices that many players hit at once. The practical lesson: obvious picks keep you in the middle of the pack, and the extra points come from the technical term.